China’s Aviation Dream

Prof. Gautam Sen

Distinguished Fellow, PPF

There is not much written about the Aviation and Space Technologies that have been pursued by China in the past three decades – technologies which have deep impact on international relations, international security and strategic balance globally. Suffice to say that in both these sectors which includes civil aviation too which has the proven capability to increase the potential power of the air force of any country, China has shown remarkable ingenuity to strategize the process of reverse engineering as a platform for basic research, bypass the generic process of R&D from scratch by ignoring the international norms of patents on one side and throwing to the winds any regards to intellectual property rights which is followed internationally globally. To develop the soft power to bridge the gap between the realm of ideas and startups in any field, China brazenly copied every publication anywhere in the world rather than even paying for any published material whether it related to the field of social sciences, science or technology. China replicated instruments and laboratories from across the world, sent their personnel from all branches of their administration and those from their universities to global counterpart institutions, organizations and universities. China penetrated the very bastion of research and development projects, paid in cash to the research scientists in every field with implanted research assistants under those very research staff globally. The latest cases which have come to light is related to bio-technology research having significant relationship to develop bio-weapons. The research formulations and advancement being pursued in understanding the COVID-19 strain of virus was one of the key targets of China.

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